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Optica Advanced Photonics Congress

Shanhui Fan

Thermal Photonics and Its Implications

We review the use of photonic structures to control thermal radiation and the implications of such control in renewable energy.

About the Speaker

Shanhui Fan is the Joseph and Hon Mai Goodman Professor of the School of Engineering at the Stanford University. He received his PhD in 1997 in theoretical condensed matter physics from MIT. His research interests are in nanophotonics. He has published over 700 refereed journal articles, given over 400 invited talks and been granted over 70 US patents. His recent awards include the R. W. Wood Prize from Optica, a Simons Investigator in Physics and a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. He is a Fellow of APS, Optica, SPIE and IEEE. 

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